9-letter words containing i, n, s, e, a, r
- scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- screaming — uttering screams.
- sea robin — any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- seal ring — a finger ring bearing an incised design for embossing a wax seal.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searingly — in a searing manner
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- semainier — a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sensorial — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- seraphine — an old reed-based keyboard instrument; a reed organ
- serbonian — of, relating to, or designating the large marshy tract of land in the northern part of ancient Egypt in which entire armies are said to have been swallowed up.
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- seriplane — a test for evaluating the quality of raw silk by inspecting it under controlled conditions for variations in the diameter of the yarn and for imperfections and content.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serranoid — resembling or related to the sea bass family Serranidae.
- serrating — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- shear pin — an easily replaceable pin inserted in a machine at a critical point and designed to shear and stop the machine if the load becomes too great
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- signaller — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- snakebird — anhinga.
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- starshine — starlight
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- steradian — a solid angle at the center of a sphere subtending a section on the surface equal in area to the square of the radius of the sphere. Abbreviation: sr.
- sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
- stingaree — a stingray.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streisand — Barbra. born 1942, US singer, actress, and film director: the films she has acted in include Funny Girl (1968) and A Star is Born (1976); her films as actress and director include Yentl (1983), Prince of Tides (1990), and The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)